And your Petitioners are extremely desirous to give full Satisfaction, and to enable your Excellency to report on this Subject to their Lordships by the return of the Packet which arrived yesterday.

Your Petitioners therefore beg Leave in this Way to signify their Readiness to attend the Commands of your Excellency and the Honorable Board, and most humbly Pray if there are any Facts not so notorious as to require Proof, that a Note of them may be signified by the Clerk of the Council, and a short Day appointed for your Petitioners to exhibit the evidence that may be desired.

And your Petitioners, as in Duty bound, will ever pray &ca

John RodgeRS V. D. M. / por themselves

New York 17*1^ February V and the rest of

1767. ■ Jo« Treat V. D. M. V^^P-^''i°°<="'

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF N. Y. ON THE PRECEDING PAPERS.

May IT please your Excellency

In Obedience to your Excellency's Order in Council of the 4*i^ ultimo, referring to us a Letter of the 29^^ July last, from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations ; and requiring our Advice and Information on the Petition therein inclosed.

504 PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

lately presented to his Majesty, by the " Present Ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, praying to be incorporated by a Charter under the Seal of the Province of New York, for the Purposes set forth in the said Petition." The Committee have duely considered the same, and beg leave to represent to your Excellency :